rhapsody
 

I am looking for a site similar to rhapsody where I can pay a monthly fee, and download music to put on my MP3 player. I have never done this before, so I have a few questions. Is there a limit on how many songs you can download? Can I save the songs I downloaded to my computer using windows media player. Are there any other sites that are just as good and cheaper? If I cancel the service will I still have all the songs I downloaded?

My plan is to pay one months fee, download about twenty albums, and then cancel the service, and put all the music on my MP3 player. Will this work? Is it easy to do?

I dont care If all the songs are taken off my computer after a cancel the service as long as the songs/albums stay on my MP3 player.

Thanks for the help, im pretty ignorent on the subject.

nice con but it's not going to work.....once you cancel the service the songs on your mp3 player won't play

damn that blows i guess ill just have to buy the cds.

How do they do that? I can understand them being able to stop them from working on your comp., but how would they get them to stop working on your mp3 player?

lol
shareminer.com
dont pay for albums

No Way!
You're enjoying the service the artist provided for you, and you're not paying for it?
Not cool

id pay for it if albums werent 20$
and of decent quality
and
worth buying
nope

Im kinda half and half on the issue of pirating stuff.
For one thing I think that music should be viewed as an art and therefore not commercialized, but on the other hand artists work hard on their music and I think they deserve money for it.

I was talking to my friend about this and he has something on his computer called music locker. This makes any music you download from a site like rhapsody locked onto your computer so they cannot take it away. I’m going to try to find that. Its a little better than pirating music, but not much. I feel a little better about it.

With sites like shareminder.com do you get spyware and other viruses or is it safe?

I haven't ;)

No
shareminer is basically a reformed google

Either they have a play type timer....after a certain amount of plays the track needs to get re-licensed which it does every time you sync with your pc or it has a time set....like after a number of days without syncing the license will need to be renewed

Tricky bast3rds

i found this:
mp3tunes.com

It is supposed to lock your music into a file as soon as you download it. That part seems to work fine, but im still trying to figure out how to sync it with an a MP3 player. Im sure there's a way im just too dumb with computers to figure it out.

Is your sole interest only downloading music and not discussing it?

Wait a second. For all of you who are against the downloading of music for free, I would ask you how the heck it is stealing or wrong. If I download albums and then buy merchendise from that band, then they pretty much gain more money then they did if I were to buy one album of theirs. I mean we already of a case of a band, Radiohead, where 1/3 of the people did not pay a thing, yet they made a ton of money off of the album.

BTW: Is anyone else having problems with shareminer besides me?

its back^

Yeah, the Shareminer lite. It isn't that bad.

Musicians make money from gigs, not from CD sales. Only record companies get that while musicians get jipped.

not true...that's only if you are stupid enough to not have publishing rights over your own songs....if you do you'll get residuals for life....that's how one hit wonder bands are living it up off of one song

Of course they get royalties for it while the music industry gains a bigger profit for the sale of the CD in general, unless I'm mistaken

Either way, file sharing isn't wrong in any way. Anybody who disagrees should just watch Steal this Film 1 and 2, which will save me time because I don't feel like typing out all of the arguments right now.